How to format your references using the Global Energy Interconnection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Energy Interconnection. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

A.R. Solow, Global warming: A call for peace on climate and conflict, Nature. 497 (2013) 179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Kronenberg, A. Rudensky, Regulation of immunity by self-reactive T cells, Nature. 435 (2005) 598–604.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Skipper, R. Dhand, P. Campbell, Presenting ENCODE, Nature. 489 (2012) 45.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Kawamura, K. Saito, T. Kin, Y. Ono, K. Asai, T. Sunohara, T.N. Okada, M.C. Siomi, H. Siomi, Drosophila endogenous small RNAs bind to Argonaute 2 in somatic cells, Nature. 453 (2008) 793–797.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

A. Vignes, Extractive Metallurgy 2, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M.S. Alencar, Communication Systems, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Nuti, A. Bonini, Gli indicatori per la qualità e la sicurezza delle cure, in: R. Tartaglia, A. Vannucci (Eds.), Prevenire Gli Eventi Avversi Nella Pratica Clinica, Springer, Milano, 2013: pp. 41–55.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Global Energy Interconnection.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, One drug to rule them all: New medication could treat wide range of diseases, IFLScience. (2013). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-drug-rule-them-all-new-medication-could-treat-wide-range-diseases/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Head Start: A More Comprehensive Risk Management Strategy and Data Improvements Could Further Strengthen Program Oversight, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Andrews, Health literacy competencies for health professionals: A Delphi study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2014.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

B. Hubbard, Fitness Classes for Saudi Arabia’s Girls, New York Times. (2017) A7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Energy Interconnection
ISSN (print)	2096-5117
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